The Mongolian script, created in the thirteenth century, is like the Uighur script, also derived from Sogdian (see cat. nos. 191, 192 & 143). This eighteenth or nineteenth-century leaf of a divinatory manual describes days unfavourable to various different kinds of activities. The two upper rows contain Tibeto-Mongolian digits; 1–12 for the lunar months, and, below each of these 9, 7, 5, 3, 4, 9 & 11 (these two in the same square), 17, 25, 23, 21, 13, 11 marking the inauspicious days.
Ink on paper
The British Library,
IOL Khot 211(1) (E.G.021.g)